- Leclerc secures runner-up spot in drivers’ championship
- Hamilton ends season without a win after retiring late in race
Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with an untroubled, dominant run at the front from pole to flag in Formula One’s season finale. He beat Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc into second. Leclerc drove a masterful race and his team pulled off a tactical coup to seal it, ensuring the Monegasque driver took second in the championship, denying Red Bull their first drivers’ championship one-two. Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez was third, unable to catch Leclerc at the death.
Lewis Hamilton had to retire his car with a hydraulic problem, bringing a difficult season to a close, the first in the seven-times champion’s career in which he has not won a single race.